Organizations adopting digital apps must deliver an engaging user experiences at the enterprise level to be successful. Unfortunately, the road to great digital experiences is paved with speed bumps: they can cause networks to become even more complex as they groan under the weight of accommodating more users, increased data volume and higher speeds.

Yes, digital apps are hyper-agile, but they are also very complex: components are often outsourced, apps are usually mega-tiered and are deployed across physical, virtual and cloud networks, making it difficult to get visibility into traffic. And without that visibility, how can you truly ensure a great experience?

Help is at hand. During this webinar, you will learn how to build an efficient network architecture to provide an engaging digital experience.

How do you reduce complexity of your transforming infrastructure, gain greater IT tool efficiency and maximize visibility into your network? The right solution should empower you to produce better outcomes with less effort at lower cost. That is where a next-generation packet broker comes into play.

Join Gigamon to get the latest best practices to:
• Acquire and aggregate all network traffic for better visibility
• Stop duplicate packets from overloading your tools
• Filter traffic to provide the right data to the right tools
• Optimize compliance and reduce risk across your entire IT environment

If you need to optimize your tools, improve network performance and availability, get better insights into threats and enable your Network Operations and Security Operations teams to collaborate, you won’t want to miss this technical webinar.

For many years the choice for monitoring networks has been focussed on the collection and Analysis of raw packets. With the increasing need for multiple tools and SIEM's to get access to this data, along with requirements from Forensic Response teams, a more streamlined method of understanding the behaviour of traffic and user behaviour is required. Whilst NetFlow version 5 and 9 do provide some visibility, there are challenges such as sample rates and lack of Application Layer inspection that need to be addressed.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about how you can:

-Produce rich Metadata from network traffic and dive into the Application Layer
-Use this rich Metadata for Security, Forensics and Business Intelligence purposes
-Generate Metadata based on the application rather than the IP & Port
-Ensure that the Application traffic, regardless of port spoofing, produces the correct Metadata

New research from CyberEdge’s 2019 Cyberthreat Defense Report shows that in spite of increasing cybersecurity budgets, organizations are dealing with ongoing cyberattacks, challenges finding and properly utilizing both human and financial resources, and obstacles to threat hunting within their environments. Sign up for this webinar to learn how to:

•Gain pervasive visibility into your network for better threat hunting
•Deal with inevitable cyberattacks, including malware, phishing and ransomware, including those that enter the organization via the supply channel
•Become more effective by delivering optimized traffic to tools
•Overcome skills shortages and retain key staff through efficiency, automation and orchestration
•Accelerate deployment and integration of new security tools

Learn how IT security pros plan to protect themselves against cyberthreats in 2019.
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Many organisations are looking to the Public Cloud as a means to extend – and in some cases replace – their existing infrastructure. Whilst the use of the Public Cloud offers formerly unheard-of flexibility in terms of deployment and provisioning, it does present organisations with a challenge as to how to Secure and Monitor these environments, particularly when considering east-west traffic. Getting access to this traffic is the first step in securing these environments as well as ensuring that the resources are used in an efficient manner to optimise their performance.

Join us for this 25min webinar to find out how you can:

• Learn about the challenges to organisations when adopting the Public Cloud
• Understand the ways in which tools can access this traffic using Gigamon’s solutions, thereby improving security and performance
• See how Gigamon has Virtualised the Network Packet Broker into these environments and tied it all together with GigaVUE-FM

Managing and securing a network can feel like a lot like navigating a ship in a turbulent storm at night. You might hear thunder and see lightning, but you never really know when or from where the next threat is coming.

What if you could permanently illuminate the best path forward? Better visibility will help you uncover hidden threats in your network traffic and prevent waves of duplicate or irrelevant data from overwhelming your analytics and security tools.

Join Gigamon and ActualTech Media in this webinar and learn how to:

•Discover applications that you didn’t even know were running on your network
•Increase overall performance of your network and shared components
•Spot potential security vulnerabilities before they become a problem

Attendees will also view a live demonstration of how Gigamon can end headaches in security and network performance.

To whack, or not to whack, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to torch all
The compromised boxes on your poor network,
Or to take arms against a sea of malware
And by blocking stop them all.

So, what do you do during an active security incident? When is the proper time to whack-a-mole with your mallet? Is it better to light everything on fire and start over, or should you make observations a key component of your response and mitigation strategy? In this webinar, we'll discuss strategies for when it's time to scorch the earth versus sit back with a cup of tea, gaining intel into what active adversaries are doing in your house.

We’ll break down some of the most important points to remember during the commotion of an active incident response, including:

•Context is king. We’ll explain the important questions you need to be ask when scoping an incident to get an improved view of the situation.
•Thinking fast and slow. It’s understandable to want to nuke everything from orbit just to be thorough, but it’s usually not the smartest play. We’ll outline the potential benefits and risks of hasty containment and remediation efforts versus slow, thoughtful analysis when executing a response game plan.
•The law of diminishing returns. There can be a tipping point where the cost of your decisions and polices no longer justify the answers you’ll find. We’ll talk you through some tactics to find the sweet spot between effort and return.

It’s time to face a hard truth: modern enterprise networks can be extremely – sometimes painfully – complex to manage and defend. Increased network speeds to 100Gb, unfettered access to cloud applications and end-to-end encryption are just some of the requirements of today’s employees. When you add in mobile and IoT devices, the complexity grows exponentially, especially when it comes to the security of the networks to which they connect.

And when we couple expanding networks with security needs, many organizations struggle to protect their users. This leads to conflicts between NetOps and SecOps goals. The networking team is concerned about availability and performance to ensure the business is being conducted whereas the security team needs to ensure the data and the users are safe from bad actors.

We need a new approach that provides pervasive visibility to data flowing across the physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure to ensure that the right traffic is sent to the right security tools. This approach should also enable SecOps and NetOps to collaborate and improve the security posture of an organization

Watch this SANS webinar to learn:
•The common security pain points as networks expand and grow with increasing speeds
•How today’s users are forcing organizations to consider/include security in their network architecture
•How a lack of security can impact network availability and performance
•How to bridge the NetOps and SecOps divide

We will discuss how pervasive network visibility improves security tool utilization and can shorten detection and response times. We hope this webcast will inspire you to reassess the current state of your network and security infrastructure to enable collaboration between the two teams and improve your security posture. Watch now!

Enable IT Collaboration with a Common Distributed Data Services Layer.

The IT environment is rapidly changing, becoming more distributed and complex as organizations transform themselves to provide better digital experiences. Because these improved experiences will be more dependent on the network, it’s imperative for organizations to properly plan and prepare now to eliminate security blind spots. The bottom line is that companies need complete visibility into their physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure to detect and contain data breaches and mitigate risk.

To accomplish this, successful organizations resist the legacy mentality that relies on more people and more tools at every location. Instead, they are turning to a new architectural approach that disaggregates the speed of the network from the speed of the tools inspecting traffic on that network. This innovative approach allows enterprises to absorb change in network speed and technology without compromising security.

ESG believes the foundational step in this approach is to ensure comprehensive infrastructure visibility across data centers and distributed edge and cloud environments. To do this, organizations must have a common distributed data services layer that can collect, process and distribute the right information to the right tools at the right time.

Join us to learn how a consolidated network architecture that includes security delivers better visibility, reduces complexity and increases tool efficiency.

Despite the insatiable demand for bandwidth, organizations still need to inspect and enforce network security policies at wire speed. And that is particularly challenging when you are upgrading networks from 10GB to 40GB or from 40GB to 100GB.

Join Mike Rothman, President of Securosis, and Sam Kumarsamy, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Gigamon, as they discuss how to solve the security headaches that go with these network upgrades and architectures that strengthen your security posture, simplify IT and reduce costs. You’ll learn how to:

- Increase Your Security ROI: Filter and deliver just the right data to the right tools from network traffic anywhere in the physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure
- Reduce Your Security Risk: Rethink your network security architecture by decrypting once and enabling inspection by multiple security tools
- Improve Threat Response: Separate signal from noise to identify patterns and threat vectors more quickly across heterogeneous networks

Find out how both network and security teams can collaborate faster and safer during network upgrades to solve security headaches – register today!

Traditional methods of filtering traffic have relied upon a knowledge of the network and transport behaviours of the applications running across the network. Whilst most applications being run across the network use standard ports, many threat actors will use methods to obfuscate their communications by abusing these standards, with port spoofing being one such example. This represents a challenge when gathering traffic to ensure that this simple evasion method does not create a blind spot to your security countermeasures.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about how you can:

•Ensure that the Application traffic regardless of port spoofing gets to the right tool
•Improve tool efficiency by discarding irrelevant Application traffic
•Filter the traffic based on the application rather than the IP & Port

Whilst many users will focus their efforts on the Tools and their SIEM tools, the acquisition of this traffic is often neglected. Today’s Security Operations Centre (SOC) depends heavily on the ability to collect, correlate and analyse network events to quickly identify and respond to security threats – but getting access to the right traffic data from across the network, and without overloading the system, can be a challenge.

Most Security Operations organizations have a broad understanding of what applications are running on their network. However, many have no visibility into which specific applications are consuming resources. While Security budgets are stretched thin, organizations have to struggle to support increased demand. Inefficiencies often result in all traffic being analysed by all network security tools, whether it is relevant or not.

Application Intelligence provides specific information about all the applications streaming through a network. In a security context, this is especially useful because security appliances are looking for the “needle in the haystack”; that is, to identify the one single sequence of threat packets or flows from the entire mass of network flows.

Join us to understand how you can better utilise your network and security tools to protect your network infrastructure and ensure your end-users receive the best service.